Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023
- Last Action
- 3/1/2023
Actions
- 2023-03-01Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- 2023-03-01Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2023-03-01 (00)
Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023
This bill generally prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls.
Specifically, the bill provides that it is a violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 for federally funded education programs or activities to operate, sponsor, or facilitate athletic programs or activities that allow individuals of the male sex to participate in programs or activities that are designated for women or girls. (Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs or activities, including in public elementary and secondary schools and in colleges and universities.) Under the bill, sex is based on an individual's reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
Cosponsors (20)
- Mike Lee (R-UT)
- James Lankford (R-OK)
- Tom Cotton (R-AR)
- Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
- Roger Marshall (R-KS)
- Ted Budd (R-NC)
- Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
- Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Mike Braun (R-IN)
- Rick Scott (R-FL)
- James Risch (R-ID)
- Mike Crapo (R-ID)
- Bill Hagerty (R-TN)
- Marco Rubio (R-FL)
- Joni Ernst (R-IA)
- Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
- Steve Daines (R-MT)
- Josh Hawley (R-MO)
- Markwayne Mullin (R-OK)
- Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Subjects
- Athletes
- Education programs funding
- School athletics
- Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination
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